Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Quotes to Explore
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
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Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.
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It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
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I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more robust economy.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
